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Marcus Trescothick
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Marcus Edward Trescothick

Born: 25 December 1975, Keynsham, Somerset
Major Teams: Somerset, England.
Known As: Marcus Trescothick
Batting Style: Left Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Right Arm Medium


Test Debut: England v West Indies at Manchester, 3rd Test, 2000
Latest Test:
England v Australia at Brisbane, 1st Test, 2002/03

ODI Debut:
England v Zimbabwe at The Oval, NatWest Series, 2000
Latest ODI:
England v India at Colombo (RPS), ICC Champions Trophy, 2002/03

First Class Debut:
Somerset v Lancashire at Taunton, 1993

NBC Denis Compton Award 1996
NBC Denis Compton Award 1997

Career Statistics:

TESTS
 (including 07/11/2002)
                      M    I  NO  Runs   HS     Ave     SR 100  50   Ct  St
Batting & Fielding   27   51   4  2025  161   43.08  50.91   3  15   24   0

                      O      M     R    W    Ave   BBI    5  10    SR  Econ
Bowling              20      2    52    1  52.00  1-34    0   0 120.0  2.60

ONE-DAY INTERNATIONALS
 (including 22/09/2002)
                      M    I  NO  Runs   HS     Ave     SR 100  50   Ct  St
Batting & Fielding   46   46   1  1729  137   38.42  88.75   4   8   16   0

                      O      M     R    W    Ave   BBI   4w  5w    SR  Econ
Bowling               7.4    0    45    2  22.50  2-7     0   0  23.0  5.86

FIRST-CLASS
 (1993 - 2002/03; last updated 10/11/2002)
                      M    I  NO  Runs   HS     Ave 100  50   Ct  St
Batting & Fielding  141  239  11  7773  190   34.09  12  45  147   0

                      O      M     R    W    Ave   BBI    5  10    SR  Econ
Bowling             415.4   86  1438   36  39.94  4-36    0   0  69.2  3.45

LIST A LIMITED OVERS
 (1993 - 2002/03; last updated 10/11/2002)
                      M    I  NO  Runs   HS     Ave 100  50   Ct  St
Batting & Fielding  183  172  16  5622  137   36.03  13  23   64   0

                      O       R    W    Ave   BBI   4w  5w    SR  Econ
Bowling             303    1462   55  26.58  4-50    1   0  33.0  4.82

- Explanations of First-Class and List A status courtesy of the ACS.


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Marcus Trescothick is a tall, burly left-handed opening bat and useful right-arm medium pacer from the West Country. He hits the ball very hard, and is a strong driver, but also adept at guiding the ball into the gaps, a skill shown to advantage in the one-day game. Not the quickest between the wickets, he is a good judge of a run, and a fine slip fielder. His technique is simple, but effective. Based on a straight bat, and an upright stance, he is adept at leaving dangerous deliveries early in his innings, rarely chasing the ball as it leaves him, and is patient in awaiting the loose delivery. A useful second-change medium pacer, he has a first-class hat-trick to his name.

Trescothick showed much early promise, but when first called up to play for Somerset at the age of 17 he had a dismal experience of first-class cricket, scoring only 14 runs from his first six innings in 1993. Not discouraged, he was given another opportunity the following season, and when promoted to open he made a lasting impression, averaging over 48 in his first full season with two centuries. He captained England Under-19 in 1994 against the touring Indians, making a century and a notable double hundred in the representative matches. Further success left him with over 1000 runs at Under-19 level, second only to John Crawley amongst English cricketers.

Despite such illustrious beginnings, Trescothick had to wait until he was 24 before attaining a full cap, serving a further apprenticeship in the England A tour of New Zealand in 1998-99, where he struggled, and failed to make the A squad the following winter. A strong domestic performance, combined with injuries resulted in a call-up to the full England one-day squad in 2000, an opportunity he grasped with both hands with a fine series of performances in the NatWest Series against Zimbabwe and the West Indies.

Trescothick made an impressive Test debut, with a patient half-century against the West Indies, and by the end of the series had established himself as a reliable opening partner for Michael Atherton. He scored 190 runs in three matches, averaging a very healthy 47.5, and was an automatic selection for the winter tours to Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Another half-century followed at Lahore, but it wasn't until England visited Sri Lanka at the start of 2001 that Trescothick hit his maiden Test century. In the First Test at Galle he was the only England batsman to show any real authority against the Sri Lankan attack as he made 122 and 57 in the second innings, but he could not avert an innings defeat. Although he made little impact on the following two Tests, England won them to clinch the series.

By the following summer, less than a year after his debut, Trescothick was seen as an integral part of the England side. Centrally contracted for the first time, he scored his first home Test hundred (again in a losing cause) in the second innings of the second Test against Pakistan at Old Trafford. Although he started the Ashes series with a duck, he ended it as his side's second-highest run scorer (321 runs at 32.1) as England's batsmen sought, often unsuccessfully, to find answers to Messrs. McGrath, Warne and Gillespie. It was Warne who dismissed Trescothick in freakish circumstances in the third Test at Trent Bridge. He had made 31 when he struck the spinner firmly to leg but saw the ball rebound off the shin-pads of the close fielder Matthew Hayden. Adam Gilchrist threw himself forward from behind the stumps to scoop up a brilliant catch. To add to England's frustration, TV replays showed the delivery to have been a no-ball, and a batting collapse ensued.

It spoke volumes for Trescothick's emerging reputation that after Nasser Hussain's finger was broken by Jason Gillespie in the first Test, there was widespread speculation that he might be asked to stand in as captain. In the event the selectors opted for the greater experience of Michael Atherton, but there was no doubting Trescothick's future credentials. His chance duly came that autumn in the fourth ODI against Zimbabwe in Bulawayo, when Hussain decided not to risk a calf injury sustained in the previous game. Trescothick's debut was impressive; he won the toss (Hussain had lost the previous 12), scored a rapid 52 to give England a flying start, and the game was won by 70 runs.

In Zimbabwe and in the one-day series which followed in India and New Zealand, Trescothick's aggressive batting regularly put England into a competitive position in the early overs. When he went on he could be awesome; but for a staggering umpiring decision at Kolkata when he was on 121 he would almost certainly have won England the match, and his 95 off 80 balls at Mumbai set up the win that enabled England to square the series. He began the Test series with a flourish (66, 46 and 99) in India, and highlighted his New Zealand tour with 88 in the Wellington Test. Despite a couple of dismissals in the 30s in New Zealand, he rightly emphasised his determination not to be deflected from his natural - and immensely entertaining - style of batsmanship.

Such determination rewarded him richly in the 2002 home series against Sri Lanka, in which Trescothick's scores were 13, 76, 161, 81 and 23*. His magnificent 161 at Edgbaston came off 232 balls - a fair clip for a Test match - and set up a match-winning total for his team. In the NatWest Series he twice passed 80 and scored a century in the classic final against India at Lord's. His season was cruelly curtailed in July when, manifestly in the form of his life, he had his thumb broken by a Graeme Hick drive whilst captaining Somerset in the C&G quarter-final at Taunton. But on recovery he quickly resumed normal service, with back-to-back half centuries in the final Test against India and a hundred against Zimbabwe in the ICC Champions Trophy. He also resumed an opening partnership with Michael Vaughan which is the foundation of England's hopes of a winter Ashes upset. (Copyright CricInfo October 2002)

* Last Updated: Sunday, 10-Nov-2002 16:40:21 GMT


 
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